Never Trumper Rick Wilson says expect to lose 44 states if Dems put Bernie Sanders on the ballot

On Tuesday, dedicated #NeverTrump media guy Rick Wilson laid out a multi-tweet thread of questions Democratic candidates need to ask themselves every single day. “Is your campaign more interested in being woke or a winner?” he asked, adding that “if you spend one minute or $1 in a state that isn’t in the Electoral College mix, you’re helping Trump win.”

Hey, it’s good advice, and a better strategy than hoping the Electoral College will just disappear in the next year.

One follower vehemently disagreed when it came to Bernie Sanders:

Sanders beats Trump means exactly that. When Sanders is the nominee he will beat Trump just like he would’ve in 2016. We don’t need former Republicans to help us. All they offer is obstruction to a progressive platform.

There are plenty of die-hard Bernie Bros. out there still, and the old socialist still manages to command the attention of young, white voters, most of whom probably want their student loans forgiven. But Sanders beating Trump in 2020? Nah.

The RNC and Trump campaign cannot wait to unleash holy hell on Bernie Sanders — 50 years of weird behavior, favorable remarks about the USSR and Marxist regimes in Central America, and his wife's role in that Vermont college shutdown.

We hate to break it to you Democrats, but Biden and Sanders are your frontrunners — at least they were, but that’s slipping away fast.

So many of his negatives balance Trump's (which hurts the anti-Trump sentiment), and he's got different negatives, of his own. I think he is definitely weaker than Hillary. I think he's weaker than almost any of the other Democrats in the race.